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The US Navy conducted a successful test launch, on May 15, of two Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBMs) built by Lockheed Martin. The Navy launched the unarmed missiles from the USS Tennessee (SSBN 734) in the Eastern Range in the Atlantic Ocean. With this two-missile Follow-on Commander...

Raytheon Co. is seeking partners to help create innovative solutions to defeat the number one killer of service members in the global war on terror—the improvised explosive device (IED). During the last six months, Raytheon’s McKinney, Texas-based Network Centric Systems has led a company-wide drive to rapidly develop and...

Nokia Research Centre (NRC) and Tampere University of Technology (TUT) are creating a new framework to tighten open and innovative collaboration in their research activities. Through this initiative TUT will become the first and ­central collaboration partner in the planned Nokia Innovation Centre Tampere, Finland. Due to open in...

The NEC Corp. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs to found a mobile WiMAX research centre in Taiwan. The Multimedia E2E R&D Centre will be established in Taipei during 2007 as part of the M-Taiwan project being lead by the Taiwanese...

The Russian national standards body, the Russian Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology, has signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ASTM International, originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials. The goals of the MoU are to remove technical barriers in economic and trade...

In a move that signals a firm and ongoing commitment to future technology leadership, IBM and its joint development alliance partners, Infineon Technologies AG and Freescale Semiconductor along with its Common Platform™ technology partners, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics, have signed a series of semiconductor process development and...

NTT DoCoMo will invest $10 M with Gobi Fund II, L.P., a venture capital fund operated by Gobi Partners Inc. The Fund will target cutting-edge venture companies in China working on the convergence of telecommunications, media and technology within the IT and digital media sectors. Through its involvement with...

AeA, the nation’s largest high-tech trade association, released the 14 th edition of its ongoing ‘Competitiveness Series.’ The report outlines the “15 Year Science and Technology Plan” announced by Chinese leaders in January 2006 and analyzes China’s capacity to implement the plan. “China’s 15 Year Science and Technology Plan...

The market for mobile phone accessories will generate over $32 B in revenues in 2007, more than the $28 B expected from the Smartphone market. Around 77 percent of these revenues will come from the sales of “after-market” mobile phone accessories and the remaining from “in-box” accessories shipments. According...

Despite some hurdles to overcome, Wi-Fi RFID tag shipments will grow at over 100 percent annually through 2010, reports In-Stat. The technology is attractive because Wi-Fi RFID allows businesses to leverage their existing Wi-Fi investments for asset tracking, the high-tech market research firm says. “Historically, one of the key...